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Ranjay Gulati

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1792 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

We're going to do that.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

And the last one was feedback support.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

They gave him real-time feedback saying, boss, the people need to see you out there.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

We don't want to see you being scared and nervous.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

So it was interesting across all of them how these heroic characters that we like to teach, I taught it as this Shackleton is a James Bond kind of hero, actually really leaned on other people for support.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

I went back, if you look at Mandela, you look at Gandhi, you look at Martin Luther King, you look at any of these modern day heroes as well.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

They all had a support squad.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

So one of the questions we can all ask ourselves is, who's your support squad?

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

Who do you lean on in times of uncertainty?

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

Who do you count as your inner support squad?

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

That I think becomes a really important question to ask ourselves.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

So, you know, as somebody who's been around organizations for a long time, I have learned one thing.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

Context matters.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

We are all social creatures.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

We respond to the social cues in our context.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

We are individual creatures too, but we, as much as we don't want to believe it, especially in America, we don't want to believe we are in any way socially influenced.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

We believe we're hyper individualists.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

Context matters.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

And I think what I would say is that as we look at context, even in a family, we have a context.

How to Be a Better Human
Stressed, stuck, and overthinking? The science of moving forward w/ Ranjay Gulati | 10% Happier

As a family, the parents create a context in which behavior is manifest, what's acceptable, what's not.